STOCKHOLM: The Swedish co-founder of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay was sentenced to three years and six months in jail on Friday in the largest hacking case in Denmark’s history.

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 30, was sentenced at a Copenhagen court a day after he was found guilty of “hacking and aggravated vandalism”.

The prosecutor had requested a six-year jail term for Warg, and two years for his co-defendant, a 21-year-old Dane, who received a six-month sentence instead.

The court in Frederiksberg, in central Denmark, said Warg’s “piracy was systematic, intensive and long-term”.

“In addition, significant amounts of highly sensitive personal information were downloaded,” the court said.

The court said they hacked into the Danish systems of IT giant CSC and illegally downloaded police files and social security information between February and August in 2012.

Warg had denied all charges, saying that his computer had been used remotely to carry out the attacks, but the court dismissed his claim.

Warg was handed over to Denmark in November 2013 from Sweden, where he was serving a one-year sentence for hacking into the computer systems of contractors working for the national tax authority.

Published in Dawn, November 1st , 2014

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